Machine-braided lace



E. BENTE MACHINE .BHAIDED LACE Sept. 22, 192s.

Filed uct. 22. 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Sept. 22, 1925.

E. BENTE MACHINE BRAIDED LACE Filad Oct. 22, 1924 I Fig.3

2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Im'en for: Z /nez Beats. by a g y I I Atfornqy Patented Sept. 22, 1925.

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E MrL BENTE, or BARMEmGERM NY, AssIGNon'ro MAX HnNKELs, or new YORK, n1.

MACHINE-BRAIDED LACE.

Application m d October 22, 1924; Serial No naoas.

To allwhom it may concern:

Bei't known that I, EMIL zen of the German Empire, and residing at Barmen, Rhenish Prussia, Germany, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Machi neBraided Lace, ot which the following is a specification. My invention relates to a machine braided lace the gr'oi'mdework of which consists of anet of square meshes and of a net of rhombi'c meshes, the latter being arranged either within the square 'rneshes or in staggered relationthereto. Laces of this kind are well known per "se. v One object of my present invention is to produce a lace of the kind above reterred towhichis distinguished from the known lace by its high degree of clearness and delicacy. .Another object is to produce a firm and "durable lace structure with a comparatively small number of threads.

With these and other objects in view, my invention consists of a novel arrangement and combination otthrea'ds fully described t in the 'fol'lowing description, reference being made *to the annexed drawing which shows,

by way of example, two preferred embodiments of my new lace.

In the drawings:

Fig.-1- is a pieceof lace of about actual size. I

'Fig. 2 is a partof this lace drawn on an enlarged scale. f

Fig. 3 is a second piece of lace of about actual size, and

Fig, l is again a part of this lace drawn on an enlarged scale.

Referring first to Figs. 1 and 2, the groundwork of the lace comprises a series of spaced single threads a running like warp threads straight through in the longitudinal direction of the lace, and pairs of strips Z), 0 arranged in the spaces between the said single threads as, each strip consisting of two entwisted threads. The single threads at are, preferably, more heavily tensioned than the threads of the strips 12, 0. At certain, regular intervals the strips 12, c are connected alternately with another and simultaneously with single threads a at d, d, and, in the spaces between the threads a, a, merely with another at f, f, the connections being effected, in the first instance, by braiding the four threads of two adjacent strips and the single thread lying between them together, in the second instance, by

BENTE, a Vcitiinterbraid'ing the four threads of thetwo strips, which meet each other at "the con necting places 7, 7. Thus the strips 7), care drawn into 'a z-ig-zag course whereby'sub stantially rhombieineshes are formed.

As is evident'from the drawing, theconnecting places (Z, d and f, f are each arranged in transverse rows as'well asin longitudinal rows. Regarding now the =longitudinal direction of the lace which direct'io'n'is indicated by the arrow at, at each. alternate transverse row ofconnections, namely at the places d, d, transverse spokes interconnecting said places are 'iformed in the follow ing manner. One thread of the four threads 7 of the two strips engaged in a connecting place 03, for example, in the one row 'a thread 5 and in the next right adjacent row a thread 0 is transferred,'in a weftlike manner, from one connecting place "d to a transversely adjacent'place d,"the'-t-hread leaving such a place on oneside of the latter being each time replaced by another thread entering said place on the opposite side. These weft-like threads or spokes b "0 form together with the longitudinal threads a, a square meshes which "are in the longitudinal direction as well as in the transverse direction of the lace displaced "with respect to the rhombicmeshes formed bythe strips 72, 0, 01, in'other words, are s'o'staggered to the latter meshes that the groundwork of the lace appears to be composed of square meshes the corners of which are connected by diagonally arranged crosses.

' "As is evident from thedmwing, the lace groundproduced by the above-described "arrangement and combination of threads is a peculiar clear, fine and delicate one. It contains only a. comparatively small number of threads, but, nevertheless, the structure of the lace is exceedingly firm and durable, because, on the one hand, two of the corners of the rhombic meshes are connected by thread forming the edges of the square meshes, while, on the other hand,

the corners of these meshes are in their turn connected by the strips 6, 6. Thus distortion of the lace is entirely impossible.

Of course, any known figure-work or pat-; tern may be applied to the new ground shown therein substantially corresponds to the example illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 in the number as well as in the arrangement of the single threads a, a and of the strips 6, c. The main difference lies in this that the spokes which form the transverse edges or sides of the square meshes, are no more situated at the Connecting places (Z, (Z of the strips 6, c and the single threads 0:, a, but at the other connecting places 7, f. To this end, the latter connections are somewhat reinforced by a more frequent interbraiding of the four threads of the two strips meeting each other at these places, while the transverse or weft-like spokes are formed, in a manner similar to that described with reference to Figs. 1 and 2, by transferring the threads 6 and 0 respectively, from one connecting or braided place f to the adjacent place 7. The character of the groundwork produced in this way differs from that shown in Figs. 1 and 2 only in that the square meshes coincide with a part of the rhombic meshes so that in each square mesh a rhombic mesh is arranged. The groundwork of the lace illustrated in Figs. 3 and a is of the same clearness and delicacy as the ground-work according to Figs. 1 and 2, and its structure possesses also the same degree of firmness and tenacity or durability.

I wish it to be stated that my invention is not restricted to the precise embodiments shown, on the contrary, many alterations and variations may suggest themselves to those skilled in the art without departin from the scope of my invention as pointed out in the claims.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim is:

1. In a machine-braided lace, a ground comprising a plurality of parallelly spaced, relatively heavily tensioned single threads running in warp-like manner the length of the lace, designed to form the longitudinal sides of the ground meshes, a plurality of lighter tensioned zigzag strips intercrossingly running obliquely across between the said single threads and each strip consisting of two entwisted threads, said strips being interbraided at alternate points with one another and one of said single threads, and in termediate two such single threads with one another only, and weft-like transverse spokes of a single thread each, designed to form the transverse s ides of the ground meshes, and each spoke connecting two transversely adjacent connecting points in each second transverse row thereof, each spoke being formed by one thread of one of said diagonal strips being transferred at a sharp angle at the respective connecting point across to the next respectively transversely adjacent connecting point.

2. In a machine-braided lace, a ground comprising a plurality of parallelly spaced, relatively heavily tensioned single threads running in warp-like manner the length of the lace and forming the longitudinal sides of the rectangular ground meshes, a plurality of lighter tensioned zigzag strips intercrossingly running obliquely across between the said single threads and each strip consisling of two entwisted threads, said strips being interbraided at alternate points with one another and one of said single threads, and intermediate each two such single threads with one another only, and weftlike transverse spokes of a single thread each forming the transverse sides of the ground meshes and always connecting two transversely adjacent points where two strips and the longitudinal single threads meet, each spoke formed by one thread of one of said diagonal strips being transferred at a sharp angle at the respective connecting point across the space between two longitudinal single threads to the next respectively transversely adjacent connecting point.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

EMIL BENTE. 

